More Manush

[tycobb420]

http://www.examiner.com/baseball-history-in-detroit/heinie-manush-1926?CID=examiner_alerts_article

 

[turok]

Is lower-case heinie=rear end manush=manure in Yiddish?

???

He must have been teased mercilessly as a kid, if so, just like other current and former Tigers, such as Rusty Kuntz, Doug Fister and Chuck Furbush probably were.

 

[turok]

Uh-oh, getting angry blue beared again...

: :-/

 

[tycobb420]

Heinie was a common name at the time and there was a sizeable German population...he probably did not get the ribbing he'd get today.